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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:17:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/svs-poverty-conference-challenges-progressive-economic-ideas/ https://www.aoiusa.org/svs-poverty-conference-challenges-progressive-economic-ideas/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:03:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12724 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Challenging the Progressive Captivity of Orthodoxy in America The St. Vladimir’s Seminary Conference on Poverty held during the last weekend of May, 2013 may portend a loosening of the Progressive grip on Orthodox thinking about morality and culture in America. Let’s face it: the Orthodox contribution to American cultural discourse has been meager, often swept […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/svs-poverty-conference-challenges-progressive-economic-ideas/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/chris-banescu-bp-savas-and-the-dust-up/ https://www.aoiusa.org/chris-banescu-bp-savas-and-the-dust-up/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:31:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10916 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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When ideas clash, they often clash hard. When Chris Banescu took Bp. Savas to task for a mistake he made in reporting the salary of an American CEO, his intention was not only to call Bp. Savas on the error, but to call attention to Bp. Savas’ economic assumptions. The error was minor and we […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/chris-banescu-bp-savas-and-the-dust-up/feed/ 24 https://www.aoiusa.org/eppc-cultures-power-to-reduce-poverty/ https://www.aoiusa.org/eppc-cultures-power-to-reduce-poverty/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:40:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10804 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Here’s the Progressive matrix: Foster dependency under the rubric of compassion, then point with alarm to the results of the policies in order to make the dependencies permanent. In the meantime, treat the dependents as a market and build industries around the pathologies that developed that are lucrative to Progressive industry — abortion, lobbying, and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/eppc-cultures-power-to-reduce-poverty/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-preferential-option-for-the-poor/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-preferential-option-for-the-poor/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 01:41:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10049 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: First Things Catholic writer R.R. Reno explains why he became a social conservative. Catholic social teaching has always stressed a “preferential option for the poor” which certainly conforms to Orthodox moral teaching particularly in reference to Matthew 25. Where it gets hazy however is when we discuss how policy should be crafted that meets […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-preferential-option-for-the-poor/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/focus-north-america-bolsters-ministry-to-poor/ https://www.aoiusa.org/focus-north-america-bolsters-ministry-to-poor/#respond Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:14:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3161 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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August 6, 2009: FOCUS North America Extends Domestic Aid with Hundreds of Orthodox Youth Outreach Volunteers FOCUS North America is excited to announce the extension of its domestic outreach to the poor by receiving the highly acclaimed “Orthodox Youth Outreach” (OYO) program from the Antiochian Archdiocese Department of Youth Ministry and Teen SOYO. Added to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/focus-north-america-bolsters-ministry-to-poor/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-kirill-on-economic-globalization/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-kirill-on-economic-globalization/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:05:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=238 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, the President of the Department of Foreign Religious Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, has written a prologue or introduction to “The Ethics of the Common Good in Catholic Social Doctrine” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008) by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s Secretary of State. The article by Metropolitan Kirill was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-kirill-on-economic-globalization/feed/ 0